Category: writer
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I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
Michelle Obama
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
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It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
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At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle Obama
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery